AmazonBasics Mechanical Drafting Pencil Review
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- This is a quick review of the new AmazonBasics Mechanical Drafting Pencil ( amzn.to/3jaIW84 ). It's a competitor the Pentel Graph Gear 1000 ( amzn.to/2ExOBpp ) and other affordable, metal-body drafting pencils. It also takes some design cues from the popular Rotring 800 ( amzn.to/3i5HRwE ).
This is a double-knock style mechanical pencil: unsharpen.com/... but it has a fixed pipe (lead sleeve) making it a drafting pencil, as well as other professional-quality features, like a lead hardness indicator and colors indicating the lead size.
The pencil is sold in 0.5 mm and 0.7 mm.
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One Amazon Basic product I count on are their batteries. Because out here on the West Coast, you have so many counterfeit batteries floating around. You pick up batteries at a drug store, or grocery story, and it's just a crap shoot whether you get a working battery or not. I got sick of it. So, I just started ordering Amazon Basic ones. They're solid batteries. Last a long time.
Their 9v's are a bit oversized. Just a few mm's but it can still be a pain in the ass with some battery compartments.
This design is a dead giveaway knock-off from the Rotring Rapid Pro. Even down to the colour ring above the knurling - theirs is blue and Rotring is red
Ah yes, good call
8 dollars is very competitive, especially with that double knock mechanism. Is there any discernible tip wobble? How does the tip play compare to something like the Rotring 800?
Probably why its not for sale anymore because they were making too much off a loss on each one.
@@700gsteak no it still exists
@@thephilosopher5799 now not exist
You missed one of the most critical things that would make or break a technical pencil, especially one with a retractable sleeve: how much play or wiggle is there in the tip?
I love the blue accents on this pencil
Great review and thank you for opening up the door to this new product.
May I suggest using a pocket protector for storing mechanical pencils that might be damaged when they are dropped. I keep them on my desk inside them and they are excellent.
Thanks for the tip!
Is the clutch mechanism in this one brass or plastic?
I'll be in the market for a nice drafting pencil once I drop my Rotring 600 directly on its tip one more time.
And thats why i like the 800
I've been noticing that you have been uploading at different times. It looks like when you upload at this time you get the best results. How about trying Sunday morning too.
I think you are right. Honestly, I used to be really disciplined about it, but haven't worried as much lately
Lookswise I see a Rapid Pro, other than the retractable pipe .
Yes good call. Forgot about that one
I’d like to see more capped mechanical pencils. Are there are premium options available nowadays?
The Tombow Zoom 505 comes to mind. I use one now and then.
4 months late, but Pentel Kerry, and Mitsubishi Pure Malt [M5-5015] as well.
pretty good stuff and price is good
I can't see why you thought of Pentel Graphgear 1000, They are very different.
It does however look a like Rotring Rapid Pro.. but with round body
Yes quite right!
A number of people have remarked that this is a knockoff of the rotring rapid pro, but I'm 99% convinced it is manufactured by Sakura for Amazon and is based off the XS-305, with some modifications for the retraction ability and the (frankly worsened) knurled grip. But the rest of the components are just about identical to Sakura XS-305, which I observed is difficult to acquire in the US except by international shipping.
Interesting. Not a pencil I'm familiar with. Thank you!
@@unsharpen another possible contender is the Alvin Draft/Matic, which appears to be almost identical in construction to the Sakura model, and which might even be the original. I really want to find out who made these, though, because overall I like this Amazon one better!
Good review👍👍
looks very much like the Rotring rapid pro. But making something that's looks great but feels cheap is what I would call a scam.
Unsharpen, do you think that the hole in the cap of the eraser in some mech pencils are meant to be a device to prevent sofocation in case it is inhaled accidentally?
(like the reason why the hole in the caps of the classic Bic Cristal are since the 90's).
That’s entirely possible! I know it’s the case with larger caps, but I’m not sure with something this small. My only counterpoint would be that sometimes you see the hole on pre-90s pencils, but you are probably correct.
For me is a clear knock off of the rapid pro
Yea! I should have dug into that
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